MAGOG See
Gog. It is a region in the north of Israel.
Before the next coming of Jesus-Christ, the armies of Magog will engage in a
final war Ezek 38/2. 39/6. There will be another war yet after the thousand
year reign of Jesus-Christ on earth between Gog, Magog and the army of God.
Rev 20/7-9.
MALACHI. O.T.
It
was a prophet who lived and wrote about 430 BC. His book is found just before
the New Testament. Four main topics are addressed in there:
1
the sins of the people of God. Mal 1/6 to 2/17 and 3/8-9.
2
the judgments which will fall on the people Mal 1/14. 2/2-3, 12. 3/5.
3
the promises made in case of obedience. Mal 3/10-12, 16-18. 4/2-3.
4 Prophecies on Israel Mal 3/1-5, 4/1, 5-6.
It is Malachi who announces the coming of John-the-Baptist Mal 3/1-5. Matt 11/10. He also announces the coming of William Branham (Elijah) Mal 4/5-6. and his explanation about the meaning of tithing is the best. Mal 3/7-12.
Maledictions
are manifestations of the Love and of the Justice of God.
They
can be pronounced by God or by one of His servants.
Those
who willingly disobey withdraw from the Presence of God, and put themselves
under a malediction.
The
first earthly being who was cursed is the serpent Gn 3/13-15. The earth
on which we walk is also cursed because of Eve and Adam Gn 3/17-19.
Canaan
and his descendants are cursed Gn 9/25-27.
Israel
will be blessed as long as it obeys the Lord, but will be cursed if it disobeys.
Deut 28/1-68.
Gehazi
and his descendants receive the malediction of leprosy from Naaman. 2 Kg
5/20-27. Maledictions about the mismanagement of money Mal 3/6-10.
Jesus-Christ
curses a fig-tree Mk 11/11-14. Malediction on the towns of Chorazin,
Bethsaida and Capernaum. Lk 10/10-15.
We
must not curse but we must bless. Rm 12/14. Paul says this for several
reasons. The first is that what we say is creating. When we curse, we create
something negative and serious. When we swear, we curse. Matt 26/74.
When we speak ill, we curse. When we blaspheme, we curse.
In
the word malediction, there are two words. There is the latin word meaning evil
and the word for saying. It means to say something evil.
Not to curse one's father and mother also means, not to speak ill of one's father and mother. Ex 21/17. Matt 15/4. Not to curse the prince of the people also means not to speak ill of the prince of the people. Lev 24/13-16.
See
Malediction. Preserve your tongue from evil Ps
34/14. 1 Pt 3/10. The mischievous is a perverse Prov 16/27. A disciple
of Jesus-Christ is marching forward when others speak ill of him Matt 15/19.
See Martyr. Mk 7/21. The women
should not spread malicious gossip 1 Tim 3/11. Titus 2/3. The Word of
God calls all of us never to be mischievous Titus 3/2. Paul is fearful
to find malicious gossip among the Christians of Corinth 2 Cor 12/20.
Paul insists that the newly wed women give a good testimony and not offer the
opponents of the faith occasion for slander 1 Tim 5/14.
It is an Aramean word which means wealth. See Money. Matt 6/24. Lk 16/9
When
a man comes in the world, It is a spirit who receives a mortal body.
God
created man in his Image Gen 1/27. It was Adam. The spirit which received
the body of Adam did not receive a mortal body, Gn 2/7. The body of
Adam became mortal after the fall. See Adam.
Soul. Michael.
Adam
was man and woman. Gen 6/2. God had a relation (non-sexual) with Adam
and gave birth to Eve. See Mary.
She was similar to Adam: man and woman. Gn 2/20.
The
word 'similar' means 'similar' (nothing more!) if you once happen to meet me,
you will notice at first glance that I am not 'similar' to my wife.
THEREFORE...
...
Something took place between the moment of the creation of the immortal man
and the moment when man bcame mortal. Man degenerated to the rank of the animal
concerning his sexuality. Before the fall, man had to grow and multiply with
God, His Bridegroom. It will actually be like that in the future world. God
will have a Bride. See Adam. Eve.
Cain; Abel.
fall ...
Man
without God is an animal 1Cor 2/14. He cannot be in communion with God.
He can just have the religions...
God
is the God of the spirits of the men Nb 16/22. Before coming to dwell
in the flesh, we were in the pre-mortal life as spirits. We came in a body of
flesh to manifest the glory of God. See Glory.
Actually,
in the pre-mortal life, we were divine Ps 82/6.
God
is the father of the spirits Heb 12/9. He is our father in the sense
that He fathered us in the created system. Before being in this created system,
we were in Him, in the inaccessiblity. Out of space and out of time.
We
have been placed in the created system in the Word which is the first creation.
Col 1/15-16. Then, the Word has created all things by and for itself.
We thus became spirits serving God the son in the created system. Then, the
Word became flesh. Jn 1/14.
It
is the Word made flesh which is named Jesus and which is God with us. See Emmanuel.
And
we, the spirits, are in Christ in celestial places. Eph 1/3.
Then
we came to dwell on earth, we lose for a while. Yet, we are always with God.
Jn 3/21. (This is yet another mystery for those who don't want to think
about what the Scriptures say to keep their religious credos more or less based
on the Scriptures)...
Remember
that: in the Christian world, many are suffering of a lack of identity. Many
Christians don't know who is God, (one, two, or three? they pray Jesus in the
name of Jesus... etc.) and don't know who they are. This is all the mistake
of their guides who are messing around.
To
be a man-disciple-of-Jesus, is to be an eternal spirit coming from God to dwell
for a while in a body and manifest the infinite variety of the wisdom of God
in the body of Christ which is the Church. Eph 3/10.
Be
perfect as the father is perfect Matt 5/48. Jesus says.: ''you are
from God.'' Jn 10/34. The fallen spirits are half-Gods. Hence the word 'demon'.
Judas
was a fallen spirit incarnated, a son of the devil like Cain and like many others
on earth. Jn 6/70 see Cain.
What
the spirits of the chosen are has not yet been manifested, but when Jesus comes,
we shall be manifested as we really are. 1 Jn 3/2. See Chosen.
When
a spirit of God comes in a body of man, he comes in the world to be lost for
a while. Then, through the rebirth, He restores his communion with God by the
Holy Spirit. But he is always in the flesh and must master it day by day for
the Glory of God. See Glory.
When
a fallen spirit comes in a body of man he is lost and remains lost. In reality,
He does not like the truth of God for he has not received the love of the truth.
2 Tess 2/10. He always rebels against it. He builds religions which
can be very impressive. But they are of no use concerning salvation. The fallen
spirits don't like the Truth of God, which is found in the Bible. These spirits
always add or take from the Holy Scriptures in order to appease their conscience
in trouble. These spirits are like their father, the devil. They killed Jesus-Christ
when he came in the flesh and today they crucify the Word of God witten and
practiced simply by the chosen faithful.
Not
long ago the stakes were put out and I say it: they will burn again.
The
heart of man is wicked above all Jer 17/9.
The animal man does not receive the things of God because they are a folly for him. 1 Cor 2/14.
MANESSEH O.T.
It
is the son of Joseph and Asnath, born in Egypt. Gn 41/50-51. He had
a brother, Ephraim.
Manesseh
and Ephraim were blessed by their grand-father Jacob as if they were his own
sons. Gn 48/1-20.
There
is thus a tribe of Manasse. Nb 1/34-35. Jos 13/29-31. The tribe of Joseph
is blessed by Moses as much as those of Manesseh and Ephraim. And both were
cited in Deut 33/13-17. In our third millenium, the tribe of Manesseh
will help the tribe of Ephraim to father all Israel. Deut 33/13-17.
It was the food God gave to the Jews in the desert. Ex 16/14-31. Nb 11/18. During fourty years Ex 16/4-5, 14-30, 35. Jos 5/12.
The
Jews gave this food the name of manna, meaning: ''What is it?'' Ex 16/15.
The manna is the bread coming from heaven Ps 78/24-25, Jn 6/31. It symbolized
Jesus-Christ which is our Bread of life Jn 6/31-35.
MARK. N.T.
His
name was actually John-Mark. He was the son of Mary Acts 12/12. He was
the cousin of Barnabas Col 4/10. Therefore, he accompanied Paul and
Barnabas in their first missionnary trip. But he left him at Perga Acts
12/25; 13/5, 13. We see him again with his cousin Barabas in Cyprus
Acts 15/37-39. He was with Paul in Rome Col 4/10. Phm 2/4. Peter
who is located in Babylon (Rome?) with Mark. 1 Pt 5/13. Finally, we find
Mark with Timothy at Ephesus 2 Tim 4/11.
This
Mark wrote the Gospel which we know as the second book of the New-Testament.
It is certainly Mark who wrote it, but Peter may have guided the direction of
the Message of the Book. In this Gospel, Jesus-Christ is presented as the Lord,
the son of the Living God who serves among men. He is the second living being
similar to a calf (or a beef) of Rev 4/7 which is the life and the Power
of the Words written in the Gospel of Mark. See
Gospel. Jesus-Christ is strong, but humble, serving.
It
is a legal bond between a man and a woman, by which they become spouses. Marriage
was not a Covenant destined for Adam and Eve before the fall ... it is after
the fall that the Covenant became a law. See Woman.
The man will cleave to his wife and both will become one flesh Gn 2/24.
Matt 19/5. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder
Matt 19/6. Mk 10/9. It is in our time that there are cults teaching
(their priests) not to marry 1 Tim 4/1-3. Marriage is honorable
Heb 13/4. The law of marriage Lk 20/27-36. In the Lord, the woman
is not without the man, and the man without the woman 1 Cor 11/11. Husband
and woman are joint heirs of the grace of the life 1 Pt 3/7. See
Acts of the apostles. Divorce.
Ezra.
Concerning
mixed marriages,
This
means marriages between a man and a woman having diverging religious beliefs
and practices.
You
will not take for my son a woman among the daughters of the Canaanites Gn
24/3. If Jacob takes a woman among the daughters of Heth, what good will
my life be to me? Gn 27/46. Gn 28/1-2. Israel will not have marriage
with the Canaanites Deut 7/3-4. Israel disobeys and starts to betray
God Judges 3/1-8. The wives of Solomon deviated his heart to the cult
of false Gods 1 Kg 11/1-6. Do not be unequally yoked up with unbelievers
2 Cor 6/14.
The
plural marriage.
At
the time of the Old-Covenant, the plural marriage has been practiced.
Sara
Gave Agar to Abraham as a wife Gn 16/1-11.
Jacob received as wives Lea, Rachel and their servants Gn 29/21-28. Gn 30/4, 9, 26
If
a man takes another woman, he will not deprive the first one of anything
Ex 21/10.
David
and his two wives went to Hebron 2 Sam 2/12-2.
Today, in the New-Covenant, we are all considered as the servants of God and the plural marriage is forbidden 1 Tim 3/2. Titus 1/6. Paul does not write: ''He who loves his own wives.... ' but: 'He who loves his wife...' Eph 5/28.
In
the countries where the plural marriage is allowed by the law, it is fair not
to repudiate the spouses of a man who would convert. But the man married to
several women will not be able to assume responsibilities of elder or bishop
in the Church.
In
all cases, we should not allow a man who is born again to mary several women.
It is the law of the New-Covenant.